Sean Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1460-0085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1882 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prevalence, burden and risk markers of health problems in Hyrox athletes: A 12-week prospective cohort study
Introduction HYROX is a rapidly growing fitness competition combining eight 1-km running intervals with eight functional fitness stations. This study investigated the epidemiology and markers of health problems in HYROX athletes. Method Eighty-nine HYROX athletes (56 female) completed the ‘Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Questionnaire on Health Problems’ (OSTRC-H2) weekly for 12 weeks, alongside exposure reporting and a baseline questionnaire.…
Countermovement jump force-time waveforms in male adolescent footballers with growth-related musculoskeletal pathology
Introduction Growth-related musculoskeletal pathology is common in adolescent athletes, although associated changes in countermovement jump force-time characteristics remain poorly understood. This exploratory repeated-measures biomechanical analysis examined whether adolescent footballers with current or historical growth-related pathology, including Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD) and prior pars interarticularis fracture, displayed limb-specific…
‘Ring the Bells’: Sound and Silence in Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom
Australian author Garth Nix has set six critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling novels and several shorter works in and around the fictional world of the Old Kingdom, beginning with Sabriel (1995) and continuing most recently with Terciel & Elinor (2021). This loose series of texts, with its bellringing protagonists, is the prime contributor to his reputation as an author of high fantasy fiction, although he is also marketed as and k…
Colloquy: Studies of Music in the British Empire: Past, Present, Future
In this Colloquy, six scholars from various heritages and scholarly backgrounds take account of the past, present, and future status of scholarship about music and music making across parts of the British Empire. The starting point is a discussion of Jeffrey Richards’ foundational book, Imperialism and Music: Britain, 1876–1953, published almost twenty-five years ago. This text has been key to many scholars working on Britain and the music of Emp…
Metropolitan Rail Transit Improvement: The Baltimore Study
In urban areas across the United States (US), private vehicle use dominates transportation, causing congestion, economic loss, and environmental damage. This paper examines transportation planning strategies to strengthen public transport networks, particularly focusing on rail transit, as a way to reduce reliance on private cars. Using the Baltimore area as a case study, the research explores the challenges and opportunities of promoting shifts …
Vernacular Catholicism in Ireland: The Keening Woman
The relationship between popular vernacular Catholicism and the more official liturgical variety has varied over centuries. Following the subjugation of Ireland by the late 17th century, and the institution of anti-Catholic proscriptions, the number of priests available became more restricted. Religious observation subsequently centered on holy days and local sacred sites including healing wells, many of them dedicated to saints. Always central f…
Can we reduce injury risk during the adolescent growth spurt? An iterative sequence of prevention in male academy footballers
Background: The adolescent growth spurt is associated with an increased risk of injury in young athletes. Aim: This study aimed to use an interdisciplinary collaboration between technical coaches, sports scientists, and medical staff to mitigate this risk. Subjects and methods: 77 male academy footballers were followed across two seasons. At-risk players were identified using somatic maturity status and growth rate in stature and the lower limbs,…
Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice
People who engage in fieldwork through the perspectives of folklore, ethnomusicology, or anthropology bring their own lived experience with them: the repercussions of their families of origin, personal histories, political interests, and points to prove. Whether we are fully cognizant of that fact, we all have something driving us to do this work. For those who undertook “collecting trips” outside of academia, such concerns may have seemed irrele…
Affecting Effects on Affect: The Impact of Protocol Permutations on Affective Responses to Sprint Interval Exercise; A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Pooled Individual Participant Data
Responses to sprint interval exercise (SIE) are hypothesized to be perceived as unpleasant, but SIE protocols are diverse, and moderating effects of various SIE protocol parameters on affective responses are unknown. We performed a systematic search to identify studies (up to 01/05/2021) measuring affective valence using the Feeling Scale during acute SIE in healthy adults. Thirteen studies involving 18 unique trials and 316 unique participant (1…
Instrumental, Hermeneutic, and Ontological Indeterminacy in Hugh Davies’s Live Electronic Music
While many previous studies have explored indeterminacy as a compositional technique, in this article we explore the concept of indeterminacy, not only from the perspective of the composer, but also from the perspectives of performer and archival researcher, drawing upon our experiences of researching and performing several live electronic music compositions by British experimental musician Hugh Davies (1943–2005). Our core argument is that benea…
Poetry Writing as Transgressive Ethnography
Poetry writing can be a useful and effective tool in managing the challenging experiences of fieldwork, performing, writing, and teaching. As an act of creation, writing poetry transgresses the sense that legitimate ethnographic work must be rendered as prose. Instead, poetry serves as a powerful way to understand the self and one's experiences in context, particularly as part of the exploratory liminal stage between experience and publication. P…
Braun, Rebecca, and Benedict Schofield, editors. Transnational German Studies
Large Reductions in Match Play Physical Performance Variables Across a Professional Football Season With Control for Situational and Contextual Variables
This investigation examined match play physical performance across a professional football season using a multicamera computerized tracking system. A linear mixed-effects model, controlling for situational and contextual variables, identified decreases in team average total distance (TD): season quarter 1 (Q1) (11,047 m) > season quarter 2 (Q2) (10,473 m) ( P = 0.002 ; ES = Small ), season quarter 3 (Q3) (10,449 m) ( P Moderate ), and season quar…
Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy
The celebrification of Adolf Hitler
Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign and his 2017 inauguration will surely valorise the study of celebrity politics, and specifically the direct involvement of celebrities in government (which in
Cancer Coiffures: Embodied Storylines of Cancer Patienthood and Survivorship in the Consumerist Cultural Imaginary
Cancer patienthood and survivorship are often narrated as stories about hair and wigs. The following article examines cultural representations of cancer in mainstream memoirs, films, and on TV across Western European and American contexts. These representations are both the ideological substrate and a subtly subversive staging of a newly globalized cancer culture that expresses itself as an embodied discourse of individual experience. Wigs have b…
Seán Ó Sé: A Life in Song and Story / Saol Caite le hAmhráin agus Scéalta. 2016. Directed and filmed by Matthew Allen. In Irish and English with Irish and English subtitles. 62 minutes. Colour, DVD. P…
Seán Ó Sé: A Life in Song and Story / Saol Caite le hAmhráin agus Scéalta. 2016. Directed and filmed by Matthew Allen. In Irish and English with Irish and English subtitles. 62 minutes. Colour, DVD. Produced with the support of the University College Cork School of Music and Theatre, the Cork Film Centre, and Wheaton College, Massachusetts, USA. Multicultural Media/Lyrichord MCM 1012. - Volume 49
On Clichés, Post‐colonialism, and the Politicisation of Swiss Literature: An Interview With Martin R. Dean
Approaching the German Anthology, 1700–1850: An Introduction
Although the anthology has its roots in the ancient world, it arose in German letters in the eighteenth century. While the nineteenth century can be called – quantitatively and terminologically – the heyday of the anthology, the eighteenth century was the dawn of its diversity. The present special number examines this variety, as represented in particular examples. The first and most obvious problem for our period is terminological. Once we overc…
Interpretation and Performance Practice in Realizing Stockhausen's Studie II
In the 1950s, using electronic devices to make music seemed a new paradigm for composers eager to remove the effects of interpretation on their relationship with their audience. The promise was that compositional ideas could be directly made into sound with the help of a technician whose task it was to carry out instructions. By making a new realization of Stockhausen's Studie II, composed in 1954, I interrogate many of the original techniques an…
Focus: Irish Traditional Music
Focus: Irish Traditional Music is an introduction to the instrumental and vocal traditions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as Irish music in the context of the Irish diaspora. Ireland's size relative to Britain or to the mainland of Europe is small, yet its impact on musical traditions beyond its shores has been significant, from the performance of jigs and reels in pub sessions as far-flung as Japan and Cape Town, to the…
Bright Star of the West
This book explores the life and performance practices of the Irish sean-nós singer Joe Heaney (1919–1984). Born in Connemara, Ireland, as an autonomous state was about to be created, Heaney grew up speaking the Irish language on a windswept coastal landscape, where he absorbed a rich oral heritage in Irish and in his second language, English. Circumstances took him abroad, and eventually to the United States; he performed and sang his way through…
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music
Welcome to the companion website for The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music. Comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998), the handbook offers detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. This website offers resources for both instructors and students, including pow…
Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997‐2001
The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (review)
Cancer Coiffures: Embodied Storylines of Cancer Patienthood and Survivorship in the Consumerist Cultural Imaginary
Cancer patienthood and survivorship are often narrated as stories about hair and wigs. The following article examines cultural representations of cancer in mainstream memoirs, films, and on TV across Western European and American contexts. These representations are both the ideological substrate and a subtly subversive staging of a newly globalized cancer culture that expresses itself as an embodied discourse of individual experience. Wigs have b…
Current Developments in Sundanese Popular Music
The celebrification of Adolf Hitler
Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign and his 2017 inauguration will surely valorise the study of celebrity politics, and specifically the direct involvement of celebrities in government (which in
Poetry Writing as Transgressive Ethnography
Poetry writing can be a useful and effective tool in managing the challenging experiences of fieldwork, performing, writing, and teaching. As an act of creation, writing poetry transgresses the sense that legitimate ethnographic work must be rendered as prose. Instead, poetry serves as a powerful way to understand the self and one's experiences in context, particularly as part of the exploratory liminal stage between experience and publication. P…
Interpretation and Performance Practice in Realizing Stockhausen's Studie II
In the 1950s, using electronic devices to make music seemed a new paradigm for composers eager to remove the effects of interpretation on their relationship with their audience. The promise was that compositional ideas could be directly made into sound with the help of a technician whose task it was to carry out instructions. By making a new realization of Stockhausen's Studie II, composed in 1954, I interrogate many of the original techniques an…
Irish Music and the Experience of Nostalgia in Japan
Irish Music and the Experience of Nostalgia in Japan Sean Williams (bio) The year 2002 saw the first Saint Patrick's Day parade in Kyoto. It coincided with many other such parades around the world, including ones in Tokyo, in Seoul, and in Singapore. Japan has dozens of Irish pubs with names such as Murphy's, Ryan's, or Paddy's, and many of them feature Japanese musicians playing live Irish music in weekly seisiúns. In October of 2003 the current…
Constructing Gender in Sundanese Music
L'A. examine la construction des categories de sexe et les relations intersexes dans la musique des habitants de l'Ouest de Java (Iles de la Sonde). A l'instar des relations et de l'espace domestiques, les scenes pour les representations musicales et artistiques et les repertoires musicaux sont penses et organises en fonction des categories de sexes. Une scene est un territoire neutre ou les hommes et les femmes peuvent se rencontrer. Selon l'A.,…
Sundanese Music in the Cianjuran Style: Anthropological and Musicological Aspects of Tembang Sunda
Notices of Fu-Sang, and Other Countries Lying East of China, Given in the Antiquarian Researches of Ma Twan-Lin
THE origin of the various nations and tribes inhabiting the American Continent is a question that has attracted the attention of antiquarians ever since the discovery of the continent four centuries ago. The general designation of Indians, given by Columbus to the people whom he met, shows the notion then entertained of their Asiatic origin, not less than his ignorance of their true position. Since that time, numerous antiquarians have given us t…
The Middle Kingdom; A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants
Current Developments in Sundanese Popular Music
Sundanese Music in the Cianjuran Style: Anthropological and Musicological Aspects of Tembang Sunda
Songs before Dawn: Gandrung Banyuwangi
Lolongkrang
Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction
How do musicians know what they know? This study explores the nature of musical competence. Using the collaborative structure of gamelan - Javanese ensemble music - as a point of departure, this work lays the foundation for a comprehensive theory of musical competence and interaction. Using illustrative examples from a variety of traditions, Benjamin Brinner first examines the elements and characteristics of musical competence, the different kind…
Constructing Gender in Sundanese Music
L'A. examine la construction des categories de sexe et les relations intersexes dans la musique des habitants de l'Ouest de Java (Iles de la Sonde). A l'instar des relations et de l'espace domestiques, les scenes pour les representations musicales et artistiques et les repertoires musicaux sont penses et organises en fonction des categories de sexes. Une scene est un territoire neutre ou les hommes et les femmes peuvent se rencontrer. Selon l'A.,…
Betawi and Sundanese Music of the North Coast of Java
Java: Tembang Sunda
Tembang Sunda: Classical Music from West Java
Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur
Wayang Golek: The Sound and Celebration of Sundanese Puppet Theater
Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920
Ar chreag i lar na farraige: Amhrain agus amhranaithe i dToraigh (On a Rock in the Center of the Ocean: Songs and Singing in Tory)
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa
Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (review)
Reviewed by: Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java Sean Williams Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java, by Andrew N. Weintraub. Athens: Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 2004. 295 pp., with musical examples, diagrams, drawings, photographs, bibliography, glossary, index, multimedia CD-ROM. Wayang golek is one of the central performing arts of West Java, Indonesia. The genre uses three-dimensional w…
The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook: Complete Meals from Around the World
Irish Music and the Experience of Nostalgia in Japan
Irish Music and the Experience of Nostalgia in Japan Sean Williams (bio) The year 2002 saw the first Saint Patrick's Day parade in Kyoto. It coincided with many other such parades around the world, including ones in Tokyo, in Seoul, and in Singapore. Japan has dozens of Irish pubs with names such as Murphy's, Ryan's, or Paddy's, and many of them feature Japanese musicians playing live Irish music in weekly seisiúns. In October of 2003 the current…
The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (review)
Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997‐2001
Bright Star of the West
This book explores the life and performance practices of the Irish sean-nós singer Joe Heaney (1919–1984). Born in Connemara, Ireland, as an autonomous state was about to be created, Heaney grew up speaking the Irish language on a windswept coastal landscape, where he absorbed a rich oral heritage in Irish and in his second language, English. Circumstances took him abroad, and eventually to the United States; he performed and sang his way through…
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music
Welcome to the companion website for The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music. Comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998), the handbook offers detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. This website offers resources for both instructors and students, including pow…
Focus: Irish Traditional Music
Focus: Irish Traditional Music is an introduction to the instrumental and vocal traditions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as Irish music in the context of the Irish diaspora. Ireland's size relative to Britain or to the mainland of Europe is small, yet its impact on musical traditions beyond its shores has been significant, from the performance of jigs and reels in pub sessions as far-flung as Japan and Cape Town, to the…
Interpretation and Performance Practice in Realizing Stockhausen's Studie II
In the 1950s, using electronic devices to make music seemed a new paradigm for composers eager to remove the effects of interpretation on their relationship with their audience. The promise was that compositional ideas could be directly made into sound with the help of a technician whose task it was to carry out instructions. By making a new realization of Stockhausen's Studie II, composed in 1954, I interrogate many of the original techniques an…
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